Carl Adolph of Basedow (* 28. March 1799 in Dessau; "† 11 April 1854 in Merseburg), was a German physician.

Life

Basedow was a grandchild of the paedagogue Johann Bernhard Basedow. He put his Abitur down at the High School into Dessau and studied afterwards medicine in resounds. It attained a doctorate 1821 with Johann Friedrich Meckel over a new Amputationsmethode for the Unterschenkel. 1821 to 1822 it hospitierte in Paris and received to 1822 its license to practise medicine.

1822 married Basedow Friederike Louise Scheuffelhuth. Both had three daughters and a son, whereby the youngest daughter already deceased at the age of 6 months.

Since 1822 Basedow practiced as family doctor in Merseburg. He took part actively with the fight against Choleraepidemien in Magdeburg and Merseburg. He successfully put down 1834 the examination for the guidance of a Physikats. 1838 were again awarded to the family of the titles of nobility by the Prussian king. Basedow was appointed 1842 the royal medical advice, 1848 became it Kreisphysikus in Merseburg.

He was a physician very engaged in the hygiene and health care, who supported e.g. the prohibition of arsenic colors such as Schweinfurter green. It developed a "“patient registration form"”, instructed drinking water investigations and ordered air and light therapies, to which it sent patients away into health resorts.

As the first in the German linguistic area it described 1840 late Basedow illness designated after him, a hyperactivity of the thyroid. Altogether it published about 60 scientific publications.

Carl von Basedow died at September tables an infection, which he had tightened himself with an autopsy.

After it today the Carl of Basedow clinical center is in Merseburg, which functions as academic training hospital of the Martin Luther university resound Wittenberg, designated.

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